Monthly Archives: October 2012

Here’s one for the surfers and skaters. With tracks such as “Where the Sharks Swim” and “Ride the Island Baby,” Brews Willis’s Nerped By A Zircon is a perfect mix of vintage surf rock and skater punk straight from the beach. While a ’60s influence is evident throughout the album’s sound, the lyrics reflect the band’s punk attitude with themes of summer and girls. The album cover is the ultimate cherry on top — a zombied-out Bruce Willis smoking and drinking Pabst. After listening to the album, you’ll only regret that you’re not laying on a beach on a beautiful summer day.

Perhaps it’s best you stay in Thursday night, the 18th of October.
Granted, it’s too soon to turn on the heat in your drafty apartment
and it’s best to keep warm on someone else’s dime, but take our
advice and stay home, make your self a hot toddy, swaddle yourself
in layers of blanket, and turn on your radio for the live sounds
of discomfort from the not so distant southern parts of the
frontière – Northampton, Massachussets.

Grazing 90.3 during the Cabelli Présente, Sans Cabelli hours:
11PM to 1AM will be Horsebladder and Farewell My Concubine who are on a fall tworl.
We are very excited that these wordmusicsmiths, folk of CKUT
past are making an expressed détournement on their
fall twourl for the pleasure of your listening ears.
They’ll also gracing the open space and booming PA of
La Brique on Friday night.

Last Friday Flying Lotus sold out the S.A.T. on Saint-Catherine street in Montreal leaving a lineup of disappointed fans out in the cold.

Psychedelic two-layered visual projections enhanced the music tenfold, though at the end of the night cheers for an encore had no avail after a notably short FlyLo set clocking in at 70 minutes.

Steven Ellison meandered through a good chunk of his new material from ‘Until The Quiet Comes’ while dropping in a few older tracks and pop references of Beastie Boys and Radiohead. He also dished out a bajillion high-fives to eager fans and hyped up gamers in the audience with an out-of-left-field Mortal Combat sample (“GET OVER HERE!”). Understandably, FlyLo’s more sensitive songs were left off the set list to keep folks feet moving.

However, opener Teebs impressed me and clearly many more. With an array of dynamic shifts, the artist less commonly known as Mtendere Mandowa expertly swept filters and tweaked beats on a sampler not so different from the one used by J Dilla on 2006’s ‘Donuts’.

Both artists are on Brainfeeder records, you can find them and their music right here.

Hi friends,
Had a super busy weekend here which involved moving all my stuff from my temporary abode to a permanent apartment on the metro — whew, ’twas a process… things keep on rolling as I’m leaving for NYC on the overnight bus tonight after work, bound for the city by sunrise. Looking forward to seeing lots of radio pals — if you’re around for the week, get in touch! And I will be speaking on a panel called DIY for All Sizes on Thursday should you feel like checking that out…
CKUT’s annual Funding Drive is also coming up next week, so we’re all real psyched for that too. Check out that amazing poster! Woweee.

Missing a couple genre charts this week because there’s so much other activity buzzing around the station right now — they will be back next Tuesday.

Start your week off the only right way: with the music of paraplegic Congolese street musicians Staff Benda Bilili. Even if you can’t make it to the Rialto, reading their Wikipedia will leave you radiating positive vibes.

Hi all,
I spent the weekend back in Ottawa, feasting on turkey & other amazing food at an orphan Thanksgiving dinner that one of my roommates organized. It was perfect fall weather all weekend long so I also went on a few little bike trips, including one along the rideau canal where the above photo was snapped. Total beauty.

We’re gearing up for our annual funding drive here at CKUT, but first I’m making a quick trip down to New York for CMJ — I’ll be speaking on a panel about DIY events & other good stuff on the 18th, so check it out if you’re around!

Your presence is hereby requested at CKUT’s Annual General Meeting this coming Wednesday, October 10th. Information, drinks and snacks will all be served starting at 6pm at the Baha’i Foi Centre on 177 des Pins Avenue East.

Come and hang out with us as we go over plans for the coming year and discuss all things CKUT!

As you may well know, there’s an Electro Swingparty happening this Saturday at Sala Rossa. In light of this, CKUT volunteer extraordinaire Sara Krieg conducted an interview with the people behind the event (Don Mescal, Khalil, Oscar Maria and Vincent Simboli) to help shine some light on the burgeoning sub-genre and on the event itself.

Everyone doing well? Good! We’ve got big decisions to make this Friday, plus a jazz festival to contend with, so unless you’re going out of town this weekend (which I am…), it’s time to get thinking about dem shows.

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